In the book, Norman argues that Burke is both the most underrated and greatest political thinker of the last past 300 years. That Burke was a Philosopher-statesman of the first rank, a life long campaigner against the arbitrary power of injustice, and a fierce champion of fundamental rights.

Burke, argues Norman, has been reduced to clutch of cliches and soundbites, but this book makes the case that we cannot understand the modern world, modern politics, or what we may now call liberal individualism, without referencing the Dublin philosopher and politician.